Monday, October 12, 2009

(My morning ride on a dolphin. Normally, I prefer a killer shark, but they were all busy.)

It seems that the majority of my readership is female. That suggests one of several explanations: 1) men don't know how to read, 2) men are busy watching NFL football, and don't have the desire to read, 3) men are more technologically challenged than they will admit, and simply don't know how to find my blog, or 4) my blog topics are not manly enough for the average guy. I will assume that #4 is closest to the truth. And I understand guys. Although I have written about cutting firewood with the macho chain saw, which is potentially dangerous and makes loud noises, I have also described how I canned pears, wore Sean John underwear, and been happily married to the same woman for 41 years.

In my defense, I have mentioned many times how I like to drink single-malt scotch and smoke cigars. That is getting pretty male-like, although my wife does exactly the same thing. When I am in the woods with my liquor and smokes, I fart frequently and cuss for no reason whatsoever. Sometimes I kick a squirrel that attempts to cross my path, and I was once seen spitting on the sidewalk when a meter maid passed by. I will urinate almost anywhere. I help women cross the street, but only if they are wearing a really short dress. I might even make a lewd and lascivious comment (sorry guys, that means a filthy remark) as she continues to walk down the street, and I will definitely check her out from head to toe in a way I learned in Latin America. I almost never watch Desperate Housewives.

But I need to cover topics that appeal more to men. I need to talk about hunting and fishing, and playing poker with the guys, and drinking at Punk's until it closes, and driving above the speed limit. Better yet, I will take up extreme sports and write about them. I will ski down the Matterhorn......on one ski...........blindfolded. I will go skin diving in the ocean as soon as a great white shark is reported in that exact location........naked...........with a dead bloody rabbit tied to my leg.........at night...........with no first aid kit. I will camp out in a small tent..........on the beach in Indonesia.............at the height of tsunami season. I will jump into the lion enclosure at the Syracuse zoo............lie down on the ground..............and pretend I am a wounded antelope.

I fully intend to complete all these activities within the next month. So stay tuned guys. Have your wife or girl friend find this blog for you, then show up at the computer wearing a wife-beater T-shirt with a beer in hand, unshaven, smelling of chicken wings and cold pizza, and prepare to live vicariously through DrTom's exploits. I promise not to disappoint you.

5 comments:

I can't lie about something like this: I read this post having just finished some cold chicken wings, I do have a beer in my hand, and I am also unshaven. I'm missing the wife-beater, that's it. Can't wait to hear about your manly exploits.

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I was a professor at Cornell University, where I worked for almost 30 years in the Dept. of Natural Resources, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. In the early 1980s, students began calling me DrTom, so I have revived that name here.
I have been married to my college sweetheart for 45 years. We have three adult children and three grandchildren. In November 2008, I retired to our rural property in the Finger Lakes region of upstate NY where Robin and I live with our black lab Zeus. I enjoy watching organisms and their behavior on my land, especially while sipping a scotch and smoking a cigar. My writing contains the observations and musings of a guy who thinks that life is pretty interesting and extremely humorous. Let's have some fun.